Word: breadless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, most of the city's 800 relief workers, who had all been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised a $50,000 stopgap appropriation which had been used up by last week's end. While breadless breadlines lengthened and the city council met to think up some sort of new emergency solution to tide the city over through the month or so until funds appear. Mayor Harold Hitz Burton made what was apparently meant to be a reassuring statement: "Although there are no funds available...
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